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ABORTION KELPIT LIMI ABORTION HEEPIT LEGAL SAFE ASTr Part of October 28 demonstration Despite the potentially huge response against the cuts amongst the working class it is clear that the union leadership are doing their best to prevent any open confrontation with the Tory government.

Although the SE Region TUC and the London division of NUPE are sponsoring the demonstration and lobby of Parliament called by Lambeth Council on November 7, they are refusing to call for strike action on that day.

Instead they are merely calling for 'support" from trade unionists and, unless there is intense pressure from union branches, they are likely to put out the same half hearted call for the bigger, national mobilisation on November 28.

The demonstrations on 7 and 28 November are likely to be large, but without an official call for strike •action they will do little more than irritate the axemen of the Thatcher government.

The •bureaucrats of SERTUC, headed by Jack Dromey, are talking of a "Day of Action' in the Now Year which will "possibly be held during working hours"

But how many hospitals and public amenities will be closed by the time this "Day of Action" is organised?

How many sacrificial lambs are Dromey and the TUC prepared to offer Thatcher before directing the enormous militancy of the working class into an open confrontation with the Tories?

Strikes are taking place now against the cuts, and despite the weakness of the leadership, many branches will be taking strike action on 7 November.

A campaign must be launched immediately through union: branches for a national strike to be called on November 28, and this should be seen as a step towards all-out strike. action against the policies of the Tory government.

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Nor can anything but contempt be reserved for those «Eurocommunist"

France, Spain, Italy and Britain that seek to appease anti-communist "public opinion" by denouncing the trials.

In fighting for the dropping of the sentences, and the rehabilitation of all anti-bureaucratic fighters, the Workers Socialist League takes up the struggle for the independent revolutionary interests of the world's working class.

We call not for UN-style "democracy" but for political revolution in the deformed and degenerated workers' states to reassert the power of the working class through workers and soldiers councils.

And to lead this struggle we fight for the reconstruction of the Trotskyist Fourth International as the world party of socialist revolution.